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Philadelphia, April 25.--Coach Farrell's final decision to withdraw his runners from the medley sprint relay at the Penn Relay Carnival today was reached this afternoon shortly before the race began. As a result of this withdrawal the Crimson's only contender in the first-day events was Berglund, the Sophomore hammer thrower, whose heaves in competition today could not win him a place against the veterans who opposed him from Yale, Princeton, and Penn State...
...yards distance for the Freshmen held their own effectively against the opposing runners. Then, in the 220 yard lap, the Crimson chances seemed completely shattered, when Miller pulled a tendon early in his sprint and was forced to hobble around the track for 180 yards, while the runners for Boston College and Yale forger far ahead. Starting with this tremendous handicap, Baggorty, the Freshman anchor man, began to cut down this lead from the time he took up the baton for the mile run. It seemed a hopeless task. But at the start of the last lap he uncorked...
Yale's triumph in the 1927 relay was the result of a gallant sprint by her anchor man, Hutchinson, which changed a five-yard Crimson lead 75 yards from the tape into Blue victory which was only a shade from a dead heat. But despite this defeat, as near to victory as defeat can be, the 1927 team gave a remarkable performance...
Winning five races by safe margins, the University runners administered a complete whitewash to a strong M. I. T. team in the relay meet at Soldiers' Field Saturday. At the same time, the Freshmen, after dropping the sprint relay, took the remaining three events from the yearling Engineers with the same ease. The Freshman medley relay failed to materialize...
Coach Farrell showed his gratification at the large attendance, but said that more men were needed, particularly in the weight and sprint events. "We have stars in several of the events but poor material in others. One candidate in ten can be developed into a point winner. We should like at least 400 men or 40 point winners...